[sdiy] Banana vs. 1/4" question

[Tim Ressel]

Bananosecond: The time it takes to hit the floor after
tripping on a banana cable.

--Tim

--- Stephen Begin <trypannon at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sort of having the same problem, i.e. going
> crazy trying to choose what
> to go with, I keep dreading one day having hundreds
> of 1/4" jacks and then
> realizing I should have gone with banana, or vice
> versa.
> I'd love to see a poll of jack preferences of people
> on this list...or maybe
> jack preferences vs years experience.
> This may be a stupid question, but it's hard for me
> to tell sometimes.
> Can't you just throw together some y-splitter 1/4"
> patch cords for if you
> ever feel like splitting a voltage?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Schulze"
> <michael.schulze at oberlin.edu>
> To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 12:02 PM
> Subject: [sdiy] Banana vs. 1/4" question
> 
> 
> >
> > A while back we had a thread about the ideal
> modular synth connector.  I'v
> > just finished my first module - a quad vco with 36
> 1/4" jacks.  As I gaze
> > longingly at the Milton sequencer I remember how
> cool it was on the big
> > Buchla system in college to be able to split
> control voltages by just
> > sticking a banana into another banana already
> plugged it.  Very conducive
> to
> > improvisation and patching on the fly.
> >
> > As I remember the thread the only real
> disadvantage to bananas was that
> they
> > could not be normalled and you needed to adapt
> signals from the outside
> > world.  I don't care about these points - were
> there any other
> disadvantages
> > I am forgetting?
> >
> > I am actually considering redoing all 36 of these
> jacks to end up with an
> > all-banana modular.
> >
> >


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